Real spiritual growth is a kind of passing; it is the old giving way to the new because you no longer want what you once were. In that quiet passing comes the Self that was always there before (within), but that you are now at last communing with. Every single longing, every prayer you utter is for what is felt to be...

Student Talks: 11/1/2019 - Key Lesson: Our experience of any given moment cannot be any more complete than is our willingness to completely receive it.

We are never further away from the True Peace we seek as when we look outside of ourselves for a place to rest.

We are never further away from the True Peace we seek as when we look outside of ourselves for a place to rest.

You'll never know how forgetful of your self you are until you make the smallest effort to be self-remembering.

Topics covered: There is nothing more mysterious than the Holy Spirit; Awareness is the initial presence of the Holy Spirit; Talking to yourself is the reconciling force of the devil; All forms of fanaticism are the result of misused sexual energy; Learning to borrow will from reason; An experience is complete when all parts are involved in the moment; Will, attention, and conscience are wedde...

Classroom Talk: 6/12/2024 - The mind asleep to itself doesn't realize that it created the problem that it can't stop trying to resolve; and that the more it struggles to try and think through a solution to its self-induced conflict, the greater grows its struggle to escape its unseen, self-induced suffering.

Topics covered: There is no real prayer without the active force of the Father; Our nature and body, by design, is passive; Nature serves the purpose of balancing its creatures, and we are balanced by the Divine; What is passive can never initiate its own action; Personality is a passive response to try to reconcile what acts upon it; Your work gradually increases your capacity to attend to yo...

Classroom Talk: 6/27/2021 - Contemplation is sustained attention on a question the heart holds in its keeping, knowing, full well, that the mind -- of itself -- cannot answer. This form of sustained conscious inquiry is the ground of true meditation: it is creation aware of itself.

Topics covered: Our sensory mind, with its divisive nature that only knows cause and effect, thinks that energies come at it, but they actually come from within you; There are certain true powerful questions that only appear in the heart and mind when the individual agrees to consciously suffer these energies; What am I actually asking for when I make the prayer 'Have mercy on my soul'; If you...

Classroom Talk: 6/25/2023 - Part 1: Enlightenment is instantaneous, but keeping the lights on is another story altogether! Part 2: Intention is the front runner of a race yet to be run, a new order of will yet to be tested, but waiting to be realized.

Meditation Talk: 10/25/2019 - Be here. Be still. Quietly remember the Divine presence that dwells within you... and you will know -- without taking thought -- the following truth that sets you free: Even as all around you everything changes, your True Self is unchanging. Fearlessness follows this discovery in much the same way as....